WORKING AT THE ICEHOTEL

last day

2008-12-15T02:58:00.000-08:00

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The hovering bed with the accentuating light traveling through the ice layer
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The plaque with introduction for the room is installed in de hotel hallway
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Michiel van de Boom finishing up
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The two chairs or snow pelts curved off the wall/draped into a chair
And of course the reindeer-skin
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Laying the base of the bed which will be illuminated from underneath
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2008-12-06T03:28:00.000-08:00

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We started making the bed!
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Click on picture above to see how you can get snow into the snowroom!
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Michiel working in the octagon-house

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I left my chisel near a building lamp..a small
icicle appeared!
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Tool shed near Thorne-river
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Icicles from a northern-light-view house
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Koster's hair with frost on it
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After the snowscooter-trip warm Lindeberger-Juice, reindeer-meat, and salmon
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Our colleague Ben Rousseau designer from London
making pictures of the shoes his friend Joe INSA designed.
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A picture made during snowscooter-trip
Later my cheek had frostbite!
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Driving the snowscooter we found a piece of Thorne-river that
has not been frozen even though at this day is was minus 28!
Seems water current deep in the water is only 4 degrees C this water
travels up and down from bottom to surface and made this
small open water with damp coming from the water.
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Glasses of ice made by colleague Natasha
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On glass-fiber for one ice piece in the chandelier!
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The Chandeliers!
Last year there were no chandelier..visitors kept asking for them thus the architect and designers decided to make even 4 of them to pup in the main lounge which is in the style of the thirties (charleston-time)
Here glass-fiber is put in the carefully drilled holes of the ice, held together
by putting a drop of water in the hole to freeze the glass fiber in the ice.
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Ice can be cut by using sharp ice chisel made of hard steel or with electric-chainsaw.
We use electric ones because it has no exhaust smoke that stains on the white snow .
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Koster on one of the chairs.
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Sticking the template on the ice to trace the underlying drawing of the chair.
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4 th december morning minus 11 in the night minus 5 (?)

2008-12-03T15:57:00.000-08:00

The non solid-works computer drawing sketch.

Almost finished one of the backsides of a chair

The two men. waiting to get their jackets off ..ice collumns in main-entrance.
The main-entrance in the only squared building of the ICEHOTEL

Just a note.

Mr. chile, with a glass of non freezing drink.

Just a note.

Ironing to make the plates transparent enough to my satisfaction.

Just a note. with reply.

I and Killepits drink from Dusseldorf.

Michiel

Shaping surface in an angle.

Just a note. made by me and Joshua.
A miauw to the cook.

The plan and the map

2008-12-02T10:45:00.000-08:00

This is our plan to make
A peeled room.
light bleu is ice and purple is snow.
It will be as if the room exists out of two layers..
the snow and the ice layer. it will be as if we made cuts in the snow
and that the pelt of snow gets loose from the ice and folds into
a chair of a bed. Other pieces on the wall/ ceiling just curve up ..the snow pelts
reveal the ice and the light that travels through the ice.

The bed

I got questions if I could place some more information about where we are and what we will make...here it is.
The map of the top of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
We are in Swedish Lapland..where it says Jukkasjarvi..There is the famous ICEHOTEL.

Mondag 1 december

2008-12-01T15:08:00.000-08:00

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Click on the picture with the yellow machine to see how
they make the icehotel building!

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View over the thorne-river.

Sledge dogs on the Thorne river

Taking away a piece of wall very carefully...best to do that in cubes.

someone is closing the room from the outside.

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basic of the rooms..every day they are working on making more of
these hallways.
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Icehotel behind
snees production field (sorry you cannot see
the snees-field in the real snow..haha)
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Snow snow and snow
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The house we live in and the flag from Zeeland!
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Michiel and Jose from Chile.
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2008-11-30T12:17:00.000-08:00

Behind us the molds for making the Icehotel

C went to 400 year old church this morning to see Sami mass

Our room had some problems that made a delay...but from tomorrow we have a good base to start working.

The ice orders for a ice-bar

A work cabin with snow scooter

The two big friends of the icehotel
the snees-machine

Fixing the wall with snees.

Taking away a part of the thick wall...
before adding it again. zucht!

2008-11-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

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Sun Icehotel-molds and the kiruna-lake where they take the ice out of
When there is sun there is also this strange collumn of light

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Our colleague
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The Icehotel being build

2008-11-28T13:31:00.000-08:00

It seems that we only have daylight from 7:00 till 15:00 o clock!
So many photos will be like these! haha

landed in Kiruna

2008-11-28T13:25:00.000-08:00

Landed in Kiruna and I love my jacket.

the flight

2008-11-28T13:19:00.000-08:00

A lot of delay with the plane.
We had to buy extra tickets..went to Stockholm through Kopenhagen.
And finally landed in the snow in Kiruna!